You’ve lost your critical website data. A whole folder has been deleted, and part of your site is down. You’re out of luck, right? Wrong. Thanks to the R1Soft feature within Cpanel, you can easily make and restore backups, allowing you to get back online quickly in the event of disaster.

In the “Files” menu of your Cpanel account, click on “R1Soft Restore Backups.” You will next want to click on the “+” symbol next to “Disk Safe0.” The name may differ slightly on your specific system. You will then see “home/dev.” Click on the plus symbol next to that.

Next, you should see several backup restore points, designated by blue cylinders next to them. Choose the date you want, and click on the plus symbol next to it. You will then see “/home.” Click on the plus symbol next to it, and you will finally see the structure of your site as it was when the backup was made.

Click on the plus symbols next the folders you want to navigate through, until you reach the files you wish to restore. Tick the boxes next to the folders or files you wish to restore. At the top right hand side of the screen, click on “restore selected files.”

At the final step in the process, you will be asked whether or not you wish to overwrite existing files. This comes in handy if you’ve accidentally corrupted a file, or edited it in error, and need to restore from your backups.

You will also be asked if you wish to encrypt the data, which is useful when dealing with sensitive data. You will then click “OK,” and the restoration process will begin.
A graphical bar will show the progress of your restoration, finally indicating 100% when done.